Sword God in a World of Magic

Alex walked towards the area where the giant octopus had landed.

He didn't want to miss out on any potential rewards the hedgehog had for him.

While Alex was walking to that place, he looked at his left arm.

His left arm was no longer frozen, and it actually felt a bit hot. Sadly, his left arm was still severely injured. The freezing of organic material completely destroyed its structure, severing veins, and many other things.

Alex's left arm hadn't been in pain while it had been frozen, but as soon as it had thawed, Alex felt searing pain coming from it.

Alex couldn't really move it much, but he could still experiment with it.

The ethereal spire had entered Alex's left arm, and it remained there. He had already accidentally shot some cold air out of his left arm earlier, and Alex wanted to know how that worked.

Alex was already familiar with how it felt to move Mana, and he willed for the cold Mana in his left arm to explode.

SSSHH!

A blast of cold air left Alex's left arm. Since his left arm was still limply hanging around, the cold hit part of Alex's left leg and the ground.

The ice below Alex's left arm grew by a bit, and the coat on Alex's left leg completely froze.

However, Alex was too busy with something else.

As soon as Alex had willed the Ice Mana to explode, his arm started to burn. Well, it wasn't burning literally, but it felt like it was burning.

Alex quickly ran to one of the spots with destroyed ice. The octopus had destroyed a huge part of the lake when it had surfaced.

SSSSSS!

Alex put his arm directly into the icy water and gritted his teeth. The sound of something hot touching cold water could be heard as soon as Alex's arm hit the water.

'Fuck! That's so hot!' Alex thought. 'Are you serious?! You have Mana, and you follow the Laws of Thermodynamics?! You want to make stuff cold, so you have to make other stuff hot?! Why can't you just do something magical?!'

After a while, Alex pulled his arm out and moved it through the air for a bit.

His arm had received several burns.

However, it was coated with a thin coating of ice now.

His arm definitely felt colder than before.

'My arm is colder than before. So, let's try again!'

SSSHH!

Another blast of cold air, and Alex immediately dipped his arm into the cold water again.

'It's not as hot as previously, but it still feels like I touched a hot plate or something,' Alex concluded.

After a while, Alex pulled his arm out again.

'I wonder, can I use less?'

but also made a bit of it

SSSH!

arm again, and Alex's arm heated

this time, Alex's arm

was just uncomfortably hot, the temperature

the cold air that left Alex's left

scratched his chin as he thought about everything he had witnessed. 'So, my arm heats up proportionally to how cold the air is. I'm not sure, but I think the amount of air leaving my

to

left arm with his right arm

Just a tiny, little

SSSSSHH!

arm. However, since he

icicles had formed

off his face and looked at his

scratching his chin. 'I only used a tiny fraction, and my arm probably only heated up by a single degree. Yet, the air on my face

blast uses the outside temperature as a reference when cooling something,

it were -40°C right now, and if my arm were 20°C hot, and if I unleashed a

scratched his chin as a complicated expression

of this ability relies heavily on my environment. After all, if I were in some desert that's 50°C and I did the same thing, my arm would reach 40°C, and

the effect would be different,' Alex thought as he looked around. 'Sure, the creatures living in such a cold

blast of 30°C hot air. However, a beast living in a -40°C cold tundra would have some issues

cold weather. I could run around with a 5°C cold arm without issues. It would simply feel very dull, numbs,

if I'm willing to pay some injuries, I can even blast them with like 60°C or something. Sure, my arm would get severe burns and would become useless until I healed it, but my enemy would be

Alex scratched his chin.

surely are some uses for this ability in a fight. My sword is one-handed anyway, leaving me

been walking all this time, and he finally came close

saw an area of absolute

destroyed, and many gigantic needles poked out

the hedgehog was calmly munching on the octopus, seemingly without a care in the

to one of the tentacles and saw how it towered

tentacles of the octopus, and just its width

before

probably fifty meters long, which simply seemed

onto the tentacle and walked along with

to the spot where the hedgehog was

hedgehog continued eating, but after some seconds, it

head to Alex and sniffed several

a

After all, it was

smelled similar to

He hoped not!

bit of sniffing, the hedgehog pulled its head back and looked

it looked at the

back at

the hedgehog walked to the tentacle where Alex had

CRUNCH! CRUNCH! CRUNCH!

hedgehog had severed the tentacle from the

BANG!

meters into the distance with a